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Someone at SubChat is spreading lies...according to the MTA. The website has a posting titled: TAs Newest $16 Million Blunder, which goes on to describe how a subway car was "reefed sometime last month, by mistake, with a sophisticated biological/radiological sensing system still hidden within the car structure." There's more about how the "prototype sensor was installed in 2005 as part of a federally funded anti-terrorism project and is housed in a waterproof–shockproof case, similar to an aircraft 'black box'" and that "retrieving the sensor is expected to be up to $16 million depending on how long it takes to locate the car" somewhere in the Atlantic, off Delaware. Wow, this sounds like the plot of what could be a great MTA-centric major motion picture blockbuster! But the buzzkills over at the MTA tell us that: "There is absolutely no truth to this internet rumor."
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16 mill to recover a sensor? They didn't spend that kind of money to recover Jimmy Hoffa's body.
Unless it's a ballistic nuclear armed anti ... it's not worth the price to recover it.
And like someone would believe the MTA? Read their lips!
It is a well known fact that subway cars have had protective measures installed since DHS was funded and protection had not been visable to the naked eye. Why do you think we never had a transit explosion or incident in the USA in NYC due to terrorism. Mechanical failure and bad signals have happened but not terrorism.
MTA wouldn't fess up to such an incident if it happened especially as it faces budget shortfalls. I believe subchat as being accurate in that I would not be surprised if such a unit was found in a subway car that was reefed. One wouldn't want terrorists to reverse engineer or figure out how to bypass the system.
Its gonna take an episode for some guy in a diving suit to get it first and to figure out how it works then report back to Al Qaeda. No joke. Hopefully noone tampered or touched it and the US Navy/Coast Guard and the like can prevent anything bad from happening here.
I can't comment on the cost of recovery however.
Leave the sensors alone. There's been recent "chatter" about an Al Qaeda school of fish that is threatening artificial reefs up and down the coast.
Maybe just maybe we are all just humans with our technological toys and our food delivery platforms which are just strings.
LOL
I can confirm that the "anti-terrorist" device on this type of subway car did indeed work. Using advanced DHS technology, the box would identify the explosive-carrying terrorist, spray him with fluorescent orange paint and shoot a tranqulizer dart at them. And this is why, as MTAuser adeptly points out, we haven't had a transit explosion or incident in the USA in NYC due to terrorism.
Nor have there been any attacks on the local transportation system in Arma, Kansas, or the subway system in Piscataway, NJ.
really someone needs to sit there an think... cost of recovery verse the cost of replacement (WHICH I"M SURE IS LESS THEN 16million dollars)
UGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
everyone ready to pay another 25cents per ride for this blunder?
I've heard that every street-corner garbage can has a tiny hidden bomb detector in it. And it must be true! After all we've had no trash can attacks.
I'm just like, what? they dump subway cars in the atlantic?